Trade Barron traded to Nashville for Carrier

[Commandant]

Title.

 

Good move IMO.

[Commandant]

 

[IN THE HEARTS OF MEN]

Habs trade Barron for Carrier

[IN THE HEARTS OF MEN]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DDvkW_pMUH9/?igsh=MThmeDF1aWkyMGh2NA==

[Habs Fan in Edmonton]

I like this trade too. Have watched Carrier ever since his name was brought up as a possible trade candidate. A smaller defensemen but very mobile and plays with a lot of heart. Will stabilize things on the right side while Mailloux/Reinbacher develop. Maybe Guhle can go back to the left side. Also makes it easier to trade Savard should they get a decent offer at the deadline. Barron wasn't going anywhere here. 

[Commandant]

 

[Commandant]

 

[tomh009]

Earlier comments by @dlbalr on Carrier:

https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2024/11/predators-receiving-interest-in-alexandre-carrier.html

[Commandant]

Trade is a big win.  Much better analytics in a much tougher role for Carrier.

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

Yup. Me like. Nothing against Barron, but I do not believe in him as a player, and we get a legit NHL RD in return (and a francophone to boot). We needed some sort of competence on RD - something I’ve been on about all season - and, as Edmonton notes, this makes it easier to move Savard. Good move HuGo 👍

[Commandant]

Barron just didnt fit.

 

Mattheson and Hutson mean no PP time now

 

Even when Mattheson leaves, Mailloux will pass Barron for PP time.

 

Hes a defensive liability who wasnt gonna ever get PP time in Montreal.

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

4 minutes ago, Commandant said:

 

 

A stabilizer is 100% what the doctor ordered. 

[Habs Fan in Edmonton]

Agreed Barron just didn't fit. Maybe he will do well in Nashville, could be a trade that's a win-win for both teams. Habs need a little stability on the right side as mentioned. 

 

[tomh009]

2 minutes ago, Habs Fan in Edmonton said:

Agreed Barron just didn't fit. Maybe he will do well in Nashville, could be a trade that's a win-win for both teams. Habs need a little stability on the right side as mentioned.

And if Nashville is going to go into a rebuild, they need to get younger--and Barron is that.

[DON]

Hope he does fine in Nashville.

[Habs Fan in Edmonton]

13 minutes ago, tomh009 said:

And if Nashville is going to go into a rebuild, they need to get younger--and Barron is that.

 

It does open up some cap space for them. Maybe it is a sign that Trotz has decided to rebuild. 

[BCHabnut]

Geez. This really feels like a good trade to me. I've watched him play a bit, but not much. But really any right handed nhler is better than Barron right now. 

[xXx..CK..xXx]

I like the trade as well 👍

[sbhatt]

Happy to see this.  Barron was a defensive liability.

[Dalhabs]

I was thinking about how a trade for a veteran RD would be the way to go before going to sleep but was thinking it would be to expensive. Happy I was wrong.

[Prime Minister Koivu]

Don’t know anything about this guy but I like that we traded a player with no future here straight up for a guy that might fit in perfectly. 
 

Seems like an outstanding trade on paper. 
 

Struble going to be sitting a lot more

[Lanes World]

Carrier’s agent is the  brother of Vincent Lecavalier

 

 

 

 

Edited December 19, 2024 by Lanes World

[DON]

 

Habs Acquire Alexandre Carrier from Nashville – HabsWorld.net

 

 "Carrier’s addition now ensures that they’ll have one proven piece on the right for a couple more years while Logan Mailloux and David Reinbacher continue their development."

 

Justin Barron traded to the Nashville for Alexandre Carrier

 

"Montreal wanted more defensive ability on the back end, Nashville desperately needs an injection of offence, and each club feels it’s addressed its main issue with this move."

[Habulator]

I think we are a better team today than we were yesterday. That is not to say that we won the trade by a large margin. Carriere is what he is - I believe that JB still is a young man with a lot of potential and I believe there is a chance that in the end we might look back and say he was the better player. Time will tell, I guess. Barron has to be able to play and gain confidence - I'd thought that his play had picked up just a bit over the last few games - maybe it will work out to be a win/win for both teams!  Best of luck to Justin Barron!

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

It’s possible that Barron will be a late bloomer. Big guys tend to take longer. We should remember that we were hamstrung, not merely by the point that Commandant has made about Mailloux, Hutson, and Matheson crowding him out of the PP time he needs in order to show his best attributes, but by the fact that he was waiver eligible. He really should have been marinading further in the minors. But we couldn’t make that happen without losing him on waivers. So instead, we’ve flipped him for a solid piece that helps us in the short-to-medium term. Seems like a very solid bit of GMing to me.